The ESA, which represents several major gaming companies, has shared an updated list of notorious piracy threats with the U.S. Government. One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks, which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years. Meanwhile, ESA’s report no longer mentions malware, cryptocurrencies, or Scene release groups, which were previously seen as ‘growing trends’.
- I can’t imagine being the people who pretend companies are hurt by piracy - they are hurt!!!111!! - emotionally because cannot control every aspect of how play their game. if cannot control life of random people using malware, just not fun to make game. - /s - Nintendo’s argument is that their games are art, and being unable to control how they’re presented degrades the art. My eyes rolled across the room the first time I heard that. - Wow. So every theatre show of classics like Romeo & Juliet is a degraded experience. I’m not sure Nintendo bosses understand what “art” is. 
 
 
 
- The site operator is non-responsive to ESA take-down notices and runs a backup version of the site at dodi-repacks.download. - Well, depending on where the website host is located, they may not need to comply. I wasn’t aware of the backup site mentioned above, though; maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same? ;-) - EDIT: Grammar. - maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same? - I don’t think so, I specifically use Dodi repacks because they seem to extract better. I find FitGirl repacks can take hours to extract and often crash. - Also, I think they’re talking about dodi-repacks.download being a backup for the main Dodi site, not FitGirl. - Fitgirls packs take forever because she uses an insane conpression ratio. They will typically download faster as a result. But installation can take much longer as a result of the compression. - Fortunately, there is the uncapped ram mode. It longer limits itself on ram so its able to uncompress qnd install much more quickly in beefier conputers 
 
 
- I used to have a data cap and I would sometimes download the Fitgirl version of games I had on Steam simply because they were half the size. 22 gigs vs 60 gigs? Yeah, give me that fitgirl zipped version. 
- One FitGirl vs a crowd of menacing DMCA men looks like a Kill Bill retake we deserve. - One hopes that Audrey Tatou is available when they produce a film about this 
 
- “One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks” - Fitgirl’s been around over a decade. - they’ll catch up to fitgirl in another decade or so, by which time there are going to be five new fitgirls. five dozen? - They mean newcomer to the list. Here’s what it says right after your quote: “which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years” - oh, got it. - I almost quoted the whole thing because I was like why would they write “newcomer” and “for years” one after the other? - thanks 
 
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- From the article, these guys are really clueless about where game cheats get sold, which sucks. 
- There is a pretty fun metroidvania called The Weird Dream that I only know about because FitGirl repacked it. They don’t seem like a threat to me. 
- Good. - Care to elaborate? - They’re the best, they should be the target, and they shouldn’t be responding to takedown requests. - Oh. That is not how it comes off in your original comment 
 
 
 
- LOL nice, I hope they fear in shiver when hearing the name “FitGirl Repack” 
- ESA is the European Space Agency. It’s a pretty prominent acronym. They really couldn’t bother researching it before registering their little butthurt group? Imagine making a corporate group and calling it NASA. 
- …so is this “FitGirl” in the room with us right now? 
- Is there a similar list of - good stuff[sry, ofc I mean notorious criminals stealing what little money a licensor needs to buy a new yacht] but for music?- Just use Soulseek - Ooo, pretty, thanks! 
 
 
- good luck finding her lmfaoooooo - ESA dodging SAMs as we speak. 
 
- I like the name “FitGirl”! 













